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INCLINE RAILWAY.

No. 815,640. Patented Apr. 14, 1885.

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INCLINE RAILWAY.

No. 315,640. Patented Apr. 14, 1885.

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CHARLES P. KRAMER, OF HAMILTON, OHIO, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-THIRD TO JAMES E. CAMPBELL, OF SAME PLACE.

IN CLiNE RAiLWAY.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 31515 10, dated April 14, 1885.

Application filed January 20, 1885. (So model.)

e213 whom it may concern.- venting the car overrunning; L, the trestle 50 Be it known that I, CHARLES P. KRAMER, work of the track structure; M, the trackrail;

of Hamilton, Butler county, Ohio, have in- N, the floor upon the track structure below vented certain new and useful Improvements the rail; 1?, the car; Q, the seat-hack of the in Incline Railways used for Pleasure Furcar; R, the car-wheels; S, the dashboard or poses, and often designated as roller coastfender of the car, and V the hangers of the ers, of which the following is aspeoification. car. The elevator being down, the car is run Thepresent improvement will be understood from the track portion E onto it, and the stops from the following description, taken in con- K placed to prevent the car leaving the ele- IO nection with the accompanying drawings, in vator and to prevent other cars running off whichthe track portion E. The winding-gear I is 6c Figure l is a plan of an inclined railway then operated and the elevator raised to the with its circuit-track arranged in the form of high level B, when the stops are removed and a circle; Fig. 2, a plan of a track whose cirthe car run off of the elevator, ready for a new 15 cuit is formedby two parallel tracks connected descent upon the decline of the track, after at their ends by transfers; Fig. 3, a side elewhich the elevator is lowered, due.

vation of an elevator for lifting the seat-car In Fig. 4 the track structure is shown in from the low level to the high level; and Fig. transverse section, with the car in position.

4, a transverse section of the track structure, There is but a single rail, M, crowning the 20 showing the seat-car in position. structure, and below the level of this rail the In Fig. l of the drawings, A represents an floor N is disposed, the same being provided,

inclined railway with its circuit-track arif desired, with the inner bulwark, O. The

ranged in the form of a circle; B, the highest seat-car P is suspended from its wheels by the point of the track; O, the starting-platform at hangers V, W being the seat of the car, and Q 2 5 that point 5 D, the lowest point of the track; the back of the seat, the same serving to con E, the terminal point of the track, some disnect the hangers together. This system of .75

tance beyond and somewhat higher than the construction permits the use of car-wheel R pointD; F, an elevatorfor transferring the cars of almost unlimited size, resulting in peculiar from the terminal pointE to the starting-level ease of running and a freedom from liability 30 B, andG that portion of the track included to derail. The seat-car may be double, one

between the highest point, B, and the lowest being upon either side of the rail.

point, D, the same being upon a continuous T is a guard and relief rail located below decline. the rail M, and U represents one or more In the operation of this arrangement the wheels, of large size, engaging this rail and 3 5 seat-car, with its passengers, is started at the journaled upon a vertical axis below the seat.

point B, runs down the decline G, and ascends In cases where the track is in the form of a 8 5 by momentum the incline from D to E, at circle, and the car runs within the circle, cenwhich point the passengers alight. The car trifugal force has a tendency to throw the car is then run onto the elevator F and lifted to transversely backward, and the wheel U is 0 the starting-point, ready for anothertrip. intended to prevent any rubbing contacts due In Fig. 3 is shown the elevator at a mid to such centrifugal effect. Such wheel is not 0 point of lift, B representing the highest point needed in cases where the car runs upon the of the track; 0, the platform thereat; E, the exterior ofa circular track, or wheretransverse terminal point of the track; F, the elevator; tendencies of the car are compensated for by 5 H, pairs of radius-rods pivoted to fixed points the counterbalanceweight X, or by a second atone end and to the elevator-section of track seat placed back to back with the first one. 5

at their other ends; I, awinding-gear; J,a chain In Fig. 2 is illustrated a circuit-road formed or rope by which the winding-gear operates of two parallel tracks, A, oppositely declining upon the elevator; K, removable stops for prefrom B to I). In this arrangement there are two starting-platforms, O, and the down trip is made from one to the other, the tracks declining in opposite directions, and each being provided at its terminal with an elevator, F, by which the cars are lifted from the terminal to the starting point, the cars being transferred, after lifting, transversely to the starting-point.

I claim as my invention 1. In an inclined railway, the combination, with contiguous track portions E and B upon different levels, of an elevator-section of track adapted to receive a car, radius-bars H, linking such elevator-section to a firm base, and a winding-gear, I, or its equivalent, for lifting the elevator-section from the lower level to the higher level, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

2. In an inclined railway, a trestle structure 20 surmounted by a rail, a seat-car suspended from wheels adapted to run upon such rail,

and a floor, N, supported by the trestle structure at a point below the bottom level of the car, substantially as set forth.

3. In aninclined. railway, the trestle structure surmounted by a rail and provided with a floorbelow the rail-level, and a seat-carprovided with wheels engaging the rail and having its seat disposed below the level of the rail, substantially as set forth.

4. A trestle structure provided with a rail at its top and with a rail upon its side below the level of said top rail, and a seat-car provided with wheels above the seat-level to engage the top rail, and with one or more wheels below its seat-level to engage the side rail, substantially asand for the purpose set forth.

CHARLES P. KRAMER. 

